Quality control of herbal medicines remain a challenging issue towards integrating phytomedicine into the primary health care system. As medicinal plants is a complicated system of mixtures, a rapid and cost-effective evaluation method to characterize the chemical fingerprint of the plant without performing laborious sample preparation procedure is reported. A novel research methodology based o...

BACKGROUND Eurycoma longifolia is a medicinal plant commonly called tongkat ali (TA) and "Malaysian ginseng." TA roots are a traditional "anti-aging" remedy and modern supplements are intended to improve libido, energy, sports performance and weight loss. Previous studies have shown properly-standardized TA to stimulate release of free testosterone, improve sex drive, reduce fatigue, and improv...

Miombo is one of the most widely distributed ecosystems in Angola, with a great social and environmental value. Thus, rural population uses biomass as fuel miombo provides important ecosystem services, such its carbon sequestration capacity. The objectives this work were (i) to assess deforestation forest Huambo province (Angola) during last 20 years, (ii) evaluate storage capacity miombo, (iii...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE As obesity is a key factor in the development of type 2 diabetes, lowering lipid accumulation in adipose tissues is as important as increasing insulin sensitivity in diabetic patients. The selected plant extracts used in this screen have been traditionally used in Indonesian medicine for the treatment of diabetes and its complications. AIM OF THE STUDY To invest...